Folding stand or easel.



. No. 762,033. Patented lune I0, 1902.

JQA. SCOTT.

FOLDING STAND 0R EASEL.

(Application filed Nov. 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

JAMES A. soorr, OF soMEsvfIL'Ln, MASSACHUSETTS, AsSIeNoR-oF ONE- HALF TO oHARLES E. FULLER, on SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

, FOLDING STANDOR EASHEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part mete...- Patent No. -7 02,0e3, dated June 10, 1902.

. Application filed November 6, 1901. Serial llo. SL352. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES A. SCOTT, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State bythe simple act of folding and interlocking parts of a prepared blank and so constructed that a substantial supportin g-base is provided and warping is effectually prevented in all parts of the device.

It is also the object to provide holding means for various kinds of goods and at the same time to leave ample space for advertising purposes.

To these ends the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter specifically described, and the essential elements of which are recited in the appended claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents in perspective a stand or easel embodying the invention as it appearswhen ready for use. Fig. 2 represents a bottom plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 shows the blank.

In carrying out the invention a single piece of pasteboard is employed, cut and scored in such a way as to provide for its being made into easel shape by simply folding its different parts or sections and interlocking certain of them.

The reference-letter a designates a substantially rectangular central portion of the blank (see Fig. 3) which constitutes the face of the ease], (see Fig. 1,) and the reference-letters b and c designate side portions'or wings designed to be folded back on the. lines of the side edges of the central portion, broken lines 2 indicating the lines of fold. These side portions or wings I? and c are notched in opare folded back. Said central portion and the side portions or'wings have bottom exto be folded back on lines 3 and 4, defining the lower edges of the front and side portions of the easel. There is a somewhat similar top extension at of the central portion of the blank, also designed to be folded back. The lines 'of fold 2 of the side portions .or wings tensions a", b, and c", which are designed are not scored throughout the width ofthe latter, but are interrupted intermediately,

incisions e extending between the inner ends of the scoring-lines and out into the side portions b and 0, so as to provide side extensions f, remaining in the plane of the face of the 'easel. Incisions g extendpart-way across the front section a of the blank parallel with each other and at the sides are curved and carried a short distance parallel with the side edges of the central portionzof the blank, which is scored on the lines 5, so as to provide for the turning out of those portions h.

included between the different parts of each incision. These portions h are also scored on lines 6, so as to provide for turning their longitudinal edges toward each other to constitute flanges 01. (See Fig. .1.)

In making up the easel or stand from a blank of the above description the side por,

tions or wings I) and c are folded back on the dotted lines 2, leaving'the portions)? in the planefof the central portion a, and said side portions or wings are crossed and interlocked the easel-face and theirniarginal portions folded toward each other, so as to constitute flanges, as shown in Fig. 1. It will b'e seen that the blank when thus made up constitutes a stand or easel, with the main or central portion forming the front'of the easel and supported in an upright position by the crossed interlocked wings and the overlapping flaps a" b" c, which form a substantial base for the easel, at the same time preventing crosswise warping of the front of the same at the bottom or of the supporting-wings. Of course the folded-back side wings prevent warping at the sides of the easel-face, and the top part of the latter is prevented from warping transversely by the backwardlyturned top flap a The flaps 7t, standing out from the face of the easel, besides preventing warping of the latter, constitute a holder for articles, such as small boxes, which can' be slipped in sidewise behind the flanges easel is provided with a substantial support to hold it in upright position and ample provision is made for holders for various articles to be displayed and considerable space left for advertising purposes. In all of its parts the stand or easel is prevented from becoming warped in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is as follows:

A pasteboard stand or easel comprising a front portion, a pair of wings folding back from the sides thereof and interlocked, an inturned flap at the bottom of the front portion, and inturned flaps at the bottom of the interlocked wings engaged with the firstmentioned flap and forming together therewith a substantial base for the easel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of October, A. D. 1901.

JAMES A. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

ALICE RICHMOND BROWN, FRANK PARKER DAVIS. 

